Samantha's visit

My friend, Samantha, came to visit me last week. It was so much fun having her here! On her first day we went out to the zip line site after work and walked the course. We saw 6 bears, including a cub sitting in a tree, a mother and 2 cubs playing in the stream eating salmon, and 2 large males eating grass in a field. It was incredible to see all of those bears up close! After bear watching a group of us went to Tory's for halibut tacos (we cooked the halibut that Kristen and I caught). It was delicious and I am excited to share the fish with my family.

The next afternoon we went over to Dave's for a crab boil. Dave and Pat had caught 22 dungeness crabs. They decided to have a crab killing, cracking, and cleaning contest amongst the girls and had a prize ready to go for the winner. We each had to crack as many crabs as possible until all of the crabs were gone and whoever had cracked and cleaned the most crab won. I won! My prize was an XXXL t-shirt that says "Got crabs? Alaska". We then threw all of the crabs into a big pot and had a boil! I will never grow tired of dungeness crab. I'm glad we were able to have some fresh seafood while Sam was here.

The season is really starting to wind down. Less ships are coming in each day and we have less departures. Soon we will have days when no ships come in at all. It will give us a chance to go on some multi day backpacking trips if weather permits which I'm really looking forward to. Another sign that the season is coming to an end is the salmon running. They are still spawning, but they are starting to die. I walk to work around 6:30am each morning when the tide is low and dead salmon line the rocks on creek street. You can only imagine the smell it produces...


Cub


Sam and me before the crab cracking contest